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Don’t Do What Comes Naturally
What comes naturally for us Homo Sapiens sometimes makes us animals; what natural urges we’re able to manage and master make us human.
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Live to Laugh Another Year
We’ve all had one of those days. One kid breaks his arm. Another fails her biology final. The car won’t start. You miss your flight, and you spill coffee all over your laptop.
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Parent Education…from Our Kids
Watching my son mature into a man is a joy-filled experience. It’s also making me quite reminiscent. I remember, for instance, when he taught me a better way to parent.
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Teaching Our Kids How to Learn
My son, a sophomore in high school, asked me for help with a school project yesterday. It wasn’t Chemistry or Pre-Cal, ‘cos he knows he passed my knowledge in those areas years ago. No, this was Psychology—a topic I know something about.
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Lean on Thee
When we took our two kids skiing for the first time, about 12 years ago, we got ‘em a private teacher for the whole day. Actually we got two, one for them and one for us, since it had been awhile since Jenny and I had hit the slopes.
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Brain Function Related to Stress Levels?
In prepping for my new adventure this fall (I’ll be returning to the classroom full time) I’ve been doing a little research. There’s a new class for juniors and seniors that I’m developing called “Communicating in the Digital Age”. In my studies, I ran across a very interesting article published by the University of California […]
